Oct 16, 2012 · causative: fell, felled, has/be felled, as opposed to intransitive: fall, fell, has fallen However, felling a dynasty or regime, or anything except a man, animal, or tree, is pretty rare today; …

Apr 13, 2018 · I'm interested in the distinctions between these three terms. Here's what I already know: timber is wood that is still attached to the ground, and still has its bark on. Lumber is already felled, a...

Feb 21, 2018 · Felling is associated with the idea of (some agent) making the subject fall, while falling refers simply to the subject's fall. fell verb 1 Cut down (a tree) ‘33 million trees are felled each day’ …

Down in the phrase He fell down the stairs is an adverb, as is off in the following: She fell off her bicycle. Although in both instances the person ends up on the ground, in the latter we don't normally say: …

Oct 21, 2011 · -3 Does it come from pioneer days of sawing trees by hand? Top dog was the one on top, and clean, underdog was the one in the pit below the felled tree sawing away getting covered in …

Same thing here: "a great distance" is not what was "felled", it was how the thing fell. By the way, "fell" can also be a transitive verb, though the usage is not common.

Subjectively, I feel there is a difference between the two. Since the focus of "fell to the ground" is on the distance moved to the ground, I would expect the next sentence to focus on the damage to the wings …

Apr 29, 2021 · Which sentence below is grammatically correct? I didn't answer your questions because I had fallen asleep early last night. I didn't answer your questions because I fell asleep early last night. ...

Jan 27, 2022 · [The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.] Although usually used metaphorically nowadays, literal examples do exist: Somerset is said to have gone straight up …

Jan 3, 2019 · Thanks everyone for checking this question. I was reading Great Books of the Western World, and there is a phrase "fall a prey to" and since I didn't know about it so I went to Collins Dict …